Thanks everybodu for the tips... For now, tending to i386/amd64... Found a Sun Fire V20z, 2xOpteron cheaper than the V100...
Current candidate for my next server... []'s! On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Joe McDonagh <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11/08/2010 12:44 PM, Christopher Dukes wrote: > >> On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 14:30 -0400, Joe McDonagh wrote: >> >> >>> "If your Sun fails"<-- that's a big IF. It's approaching a possibility >>> of 0 in my experience. >>> >>> If performance isn't an issue and stability is your chief goal, none of >>> this hardware is as stable as a Sun. >>> >>> >> Not quite my experience. >> In 2001 I worked at a place with a lot of used Sun hardware courtesy of >> Fujitsu layoffs (Sparc 20s, Ultra 5s). >> Entirely too many fried ethernet ports on the sparc 20s. >> And it took too many iterations to find a sparc 20 that wouldn't crash >> and burn while building OpenBSD from source. >> A fidgety developer kicking an ultra 5 from a | orientation to a _ >> orientation would reliably destroy the power supply and harddrives. >> On the bright side, I could repair the ultra 5s with power supply and >> drives scavenged from eMachines with ALI motherboards with the wonderful >> DMA that shoved garbage into memory for every OS we tried on them. >> >> I thought the Micro Channel based RS/6Ks (Before the horrid SMP ones >> designed by Group Bull) were a bit more bullet proof, with the only dead >> hardware I'd experience being. >> 1) Rats pissing on the system boards, because the customer refused to >> keep the covers on their systems in manufacturing. >> 2) A ladybird beetle invasion. >> The RT PC was pretty reliable too. I had one manufactured in 1987 that >> was still trundling along in 2006 when I gave it away. >> >> >> > To be fair, the ultra 5 was sort of an attempt to cut corners and produce > 'cheaper' workstations. They also OEM'd their boards at that point (my first > Sun was an Ultra 5 board in some kind of no-name chassis). The next > iteration, the Blade 100, had a fair amount of problems but generally, you > get what you pay for. I'm talking more about their servers in terms of > reliability. > > > -- > Joe McDonagh > AIM: YoosingYoonickz > IRC: joe-mac on freenode > "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
